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plug
verb- to support, to endorse, to promote US, 1927
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 16, 1945
- But a late development in the business, one which suspiciously smacks of a restraint of trade violation, is the practice of some publishers of giving a stock interest in their firms to noted crooners, band leaders, and disc jockeys, who in return “plug” the latest publications of the companies in which they are interested. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 32, 1948
- “ I’m still plugging for you,” Owens said. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 348, 1970
- to shoot someone US, 1870
- “ Listen, rat"–Benny’s face paled–"one more word like that and I’ll plug you too. They can only burn me once, and I’d just as soon knock you off to stay alive as not.” — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 85, 1947
- Heah, go on over and plug that dame in the belly! Get real kicks! — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 13, 1952
- Fuck The Politics, Plug The Brits, and by Christ you can name your tune[.] — James Hawes, Dead Long Enough, p. 105, 2000
- [H]e pointed his gun at the back of the unconscious driver’s head and pulled the trigger. Click! “Shit, I’m out, plug him and let’s get going,” he said. “Plug him?” — Danny King, The Bank Robber Diaries, p. 154, 2002
- (of a male) to have sex with someone UK, 1888
- You’d be lookin’ old as sin too, if you was floppin’ up and down bein’ plugged by twenty or thirty tricks a night. — Odie Hawkins, Ghetto Sketches, p. 20, 1972
- Then old Buck comes around and plugs her dog fashion while she’s goin down on me. — Earl Thompson, Tattoo, p. 225, 1974
- I spent four fucking hours at Slater Hawkins last night, trying to plug a chick I wouldn’t have sneezed at in college. — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 218, 1978
- — Maledicta, p. 250, 1983: “A Connotative analysis of synonyms for sexual intercourse”
- to insert contraband items into the anus during a prison visit UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 89, 1996
- to engage in a fist fight without any weapons US
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 90, 1992
- on the railways, to use the reverse gear to help stop a train US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 116, 1977
- to tease or taunt someone US
- — Gary K. Farlow, Prison-ese, p. 52, 2002
▶ plug in
to help US
In the usage of counterculturalists associated with the Rainbow Nation gatherings.- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 289, 1997
▶ plug in both ways
(of a male) to be bisexual UK
A play on AC/DC.- — D. Kavanagh, Duffy, 1980
▶ plug your mug
to stop talking US- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
- — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 92, 1970
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